After a few hours of traveling in the void, a bright light shone from Mo Shen's body. It was the light of the Dao universe, indicating that one had entered the dao.
That was the first step to breaking into the Origin Dao realm, entering the Dao by one's own effort.
Mo Shen opened his eyes with a smile. "So this was what I was missing."
Mo Shen usually had at least 5 battles in a day. After every battle, he always sat cross-legged, comprehending nature.
In that way, he could start comprehending the dao after he became one with nature. It was an invisible state of the soul that one could only sense and couldn't feel. But for the past 1 year, he seemed to have been stuck in a bottle-neck and hadn't made any progress.
The state he just reached was the state of entering the dao. It seemed like one needed to be in an extraordinary environment to really feel the pure nature of the dao.
"Entering the dao was supposed to be an easy thing for those peak Empyreans, but they decided to make things very complicated by making all sorts of useless techniques that doesn't work."
"Throughout my cultivation journey, I will never use any of those useless techniques. If I must use a technique, then I'll make it myself."
Mo Fan was once again in shock at Mo Shen's abilities. "Young lord, you do know that what you just did was the most important step to entering the origin dao realm right?"
"I know." Mo Shen replied with a shrug.
"First you lit the soul flame which is the symbol of the Immortal soul realm, then you've entered the dao and have been babtised by the dao, which is the biggest step to entering the origin dao realm. What are you going to do next? Create your dao and enter the universe dao realm?"
"I can feel that if I stay in this void for a year, I'll be able to create my dao. I've already had inspirations to my dao a long time ago. Those my battles had been sharpening the inspirations. What I just lacked was the state of entering the dao."
"So if I stay here for a year, I will be able to enter the dao." Mo Shen said as he pondered on his next line of action.
"Young lord, you're not serious right?" Mo Fan seemed a bit scared because he discovered that his young lord was actually considering it.
"It's just a year, we'll stay here for a year." Mo Shen said in a decisive tone. "You can also stay and feel the nature. This void seems to be the best for it."
"Young lord, do you think my talent is like your own that I will just stay here for a year and I will make such progress?" Mo Fan complained.
Mo Shen smiled lightly. "It does not fully have to do with talent. Just empty your mind and try controlling your soul and fusing it with nature."
"How is that possible young lord. It's only experts that have reached the origin dao realm that can have such precise control of their soul." Mo Fan said in a disbelieving tone.
"That's why I said those cultivation techniques are quite useless. After one crosses the soul formation realm and forms their divine soul, they're to be able to exert full control of their soul as they cross through the nine stages of the Immortal soul realm even before igniting their soul flame."
"So for you, the first step will few to learn how to control your soul perfectly." Mo Shen said as he stood up and walked to and froth in front of Mo Fan.
Someone seeing this scene would think they were master and disciple.
"The fastest way to learn to control your soul would be to remove your soul defenses and allow your soul flame to burn your soul."
"After that you should try and control the temperature of the soul flame to reduce the burning effect so as not to harm your soul."
"In between tries, you'll need to stop and rest so as not to cause permanent damage to your soul. The moment you have perfect control of your soul flame, the rest will be easy. You will use a similar method for your soul. At that time, you'll know what to do."
After Mo Shen finished instructing Mo Fan, he sat down cross-legged on air and closed his eyes. "I really wish time can just stop for one year, just like when I was born. There's really no much time to waste as one year."
As he emptied his mind, he entered a selfless state of the soul. He began to flow with the dao and interact with it.
Most cultivation techniques at this stage will teach you how to forcefully comprehend the dao. It was no wonder there have never been anyone who reached the Origin Dao realm other than the 2 ancestors.
From Mo Shen's point of view, the right way was to interact with the dao like you're making friends with it. It is also to understand yourselves. You'll understand the dao's feelings, and the dao will understand you.
If you try to forcefully comprehend the dao, the dao will also try to fight back. Even if you eventually succeed, you'll only be able to scratch the surface of the dao. The dao will rather destroy itself than allow you to obtain it.
In the blink of an eye, one year passed. Mo Shen opened his eyes, and a bright light shot out from it, destroying all spatial particles in the void for the next 10,000 miles. His eyes seemed to contain endless wisdom. It wouldn't be a lie to say one can enter the dao simply by peering into his eyes for a year.
At the same time, Mo Fan stood up. He seemed to be different than a year ago. "Young lord, have you created your dao?"
"Not yet. It seems I still need more accumulations. But I am not far from it. I feel like I need to add one more thing." Mo Shen said with a frown.
"It seems like you've made some progress." Mo Shen said with a smile as he could feel that there was a change with Mo Fan.
"Yes young lord." Mo Fan said brimming with joy. "I have succeeded in controlling my soul fully. The next step will be to fuse it with nature."
"But young lord, the process was too easy, it was like there was some external assistance." Mo Fan said.
"Oh! You could feel it?" Mo Shen asked in surprise. It seemed like Mo Fan had become more intuitive after learning to control his soul.
"Yes young lord. Do you know about it?" Mo Fan asked curiously.
"Look around us." Mo Shen pointed to their environment.
"This..." Mo Fan's mouth dropped in shock. "We haven't moved from this position in the past one year?"
Originally, Mo Fan had set the teleportation scroll to move very slowly because Mo Shen wanted to spend a year in the void. If it moved too fast, it might cause distractions.
According to normal sense, they should be very close to destination now, but they hadn't moved at all.
"Seeing as we are now moving, is seems like time stopped." Mo Fan said, coming to the most reasonable conclusion. "Young lord, did you do this?"
Mo Shen shook his head. "I don't have that power. It's these two guys in me. It seemed like I unintentionally borrowed their power. It was just like the time I was born that there was a 10 years pause in time. At that time, my body had also stopped, but my soul was growing. It also helped me strengthen my soul and increase my knowledge of the universe."
"That seemed to be what happened now, only that you were also included." Mo Shen said as he thought more about it.
"Yes, this is it. The power of time." Mo Shen said as he jumped in excitement. "This is what I need to add to my dao, and also the power of space."
"If I destroy these guys in me, I think I'll be able to devour their memories and stand a chance to obtain the power of space and time."
"I'm really looking forward to it." Mo Shen said with excitement. "Speed it up, let's go."
In a few days time, they arrived at their destination.
Mo Shen was amazed at the state of the Undying Phoenix world. The world was completely barren of living creatures, other than a few natives numbering not up to a million.
Another peculiar thing was that the whole world was red. The sky, the ground, the trees and even the few natives; they were all red.
Mo Shen didn't stay long to admire the scenery, he quickly went in search for the flaming Phoenix mountain.It didn't take long before they found it, just about 5 days. The flaming Phoenix mountain is the hottest place in this world, so it was relatively easy to find it. They just had to trace the direction of the heat.
"The flames here are really something else. Even a True Immortal wouldn't feel comfortable staying here for a long time." Mo Fan commented as he looked down on the mountain.
"There's no time to wait. I'll be going down now." Mo Shen said as he left Mo Fan's air field and directly jumped into the inner part of the mountain.
Although the flames were quite dangerous, he was able to withstand it by utilizing the demon bones to protect his skin.
"This is the core of the mountain, where the heat comes from. I wonder where the source of the flames is." Mo Shen said as he glanced around casually.
"Forget it, this place is already good enough." He sat down cross-legged and brought out his soul flame.
The moment the soul flame came out, the entire temperature rose up by a notch.
Mo Shen controlled the soul flame to integrate with the flames that were here and the temperature sky rocketed. It wasn't as simple as 1 plus 1.
Even though Mo Shen's body was protected by the demon bones, it began to melt little by little.
"This speed is too slow. It's like I'm torturing my self by burning." Mo Shen thought.
As he was about to increase the temperature of the soul flame, he noticed something shiny in a corner.He stood up and left where he was to that corner. As he got closer, he found out that it was a storage ring. It was broken and seemed to be on the verge of destruction.
"The space within it should have collapsed already." Mo Shen thought as he threw the ring away.
Mo Shen continued to walk on past the corner. It was then he noticed a stone door that seemed to be no different from the rocks around.
"It was no wonder nobody had found this place since a million years ago when the Phoenix attained Nirvana." Mo Shen said as he studied the stone door.
The door had been sealed shut with their dao. Only those that had entered the dao will be able to notice it and open it.
Normally, only Origin Dao cultivators would have entered the dao. But, putting aside the fact that only a handful of cultivators in the Dao universe had reached that realm in millions of years, which of them with their status will go to the lower world to seek out treasures?
"Well I am an anomaly." Mo Shen said with a smile.
He had just happened to reach the state of 'entering the dao' before arriving here which makes it possible for him to open the stone door. He opened the stone door effortlessly and entered it. Inside was a large cave.